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This only happens this one brief moment, but IвЂ™m surprised to see it happen at all.ДЇunimation did try to make this new set more appealing by including some bonus items. Apparently, Funimation mixed up the English and Japanese audio tracks. There is one audio error in the fourth episode, when a little girl catches a boy in (what she thinks is) a game of tag and says вЂњgotcha,вЂќ in plain English, and in a totally different voice than how she sounds later. The audio and video are better than the old Pioneer DVDs, enough so that I would say that this is the version of the show to own, but some of the film was apparently poorly preserved and thus a bit fuzzy-looking here, and even the well-preserved scenes had an upper limit for how much they could improve.ДЄs far as I can tell, the translation is the same as the old edition they even continue to refer to Alice as вЂњArisuвЂќ in the subtitles.

So, thereвЂ™s only so much those restoring the film for the blu-ray could do to sharpen it up for high definition. Even a few of the more static shots lack detail, so the end result varies wildly from unique, even fascinating, imagery, to shots that simply look awkward. Though the aesthetic of the show is great, and still frames are often very attractive, much of the animation isnвЂ™t very animated. Unfortunately, lain had more ideas than budget. If you want to know a little more about the show itself, IвЂ™d recommend reading Lawrence EngвЂ™s short review (his site, вЂњthought experiments lain,вЂќ is also a great resource for information on the showвЂ™s many allusions and plot points). ThereвЂ™s a good deal of exposition and a few infodumps, and though the generally slow pacing keeps this from getting totally out of hand, it is fair to use one of the episode titles, вЂњinfornography,вЂќ to describe this showвЂ™s approach to storytelling.

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Writer Konaka Chiaki and his co-creators really packed a lot of ideas into this show, and the result is a series dense with information. Now, IвЂ™ll focus on this specific release rather than the series itself for this post, but I will say that what I love about lain is the showвЂ™s ambition.

So, when Funimation finally, two years after licensing it, released it on glorious blu-ray I felt obligated to pre-order it.

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As I mentioned in the second Anime Autobiography post, serial experiments lain is, by far, my favourite anime, and the show that really made me into an anime fan.

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